Friday, March 29, 2024

Cycling and Mexico City: Better than Before

Mexico City already has one of the world’s best bike-share systems. This year, Avenida de los Insurgentes, one of the longest avenues, got an...

Protected: Strengthening the Human Infrastructure of Cycling

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Mexico’s Ideamos Program Shows Bicycles Are Moving More than People

For decades people in cities around the world have been using bicycles for so much more than passenger travel. Since the start of the...

Mexico’s Ideamos Program Shows Bicycles Are Moving More than People

For decades people in cities around the world have been using bicycles for so much more than passenger travel. Since the start of the...

#MejoresCallesMX: Envisioning Better Streets Across Mexico

All around the world, there is a movement to re-imagine and re-design urban streets that better serve the needs of people, rather than emissions-heavy...

Reshaping Mexico’s Approach to Housing and Urban Sprawl

A common sight on the outskirts of many of Mexico’s cities is thousands of small, single-family houses sitting isolated inside gated communities. Often disjointed...

The City We Claim: Mobility in Mexico City

This article was authored by Pablo Montaño, Producer and Writer of El Tema (The Topic), a Spanish-language web series focused on climate change and mobility. The...

Ideamos: An Innovative and Collaborative Program to Transform Urban Mobility in Mexico

To pilot and advance ideas for the future of Mexico’s cities, ITDP Mexico launched the Ideamos program in 2020 with the aim of promoting...

A New Approach to Modeling Commutes and Access in Our Cities

In All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analysis, a new paper from the New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO)...

Advocating for Safer Routes to School for Children Across Mexico

A growing epidemic of traffic injuries is devastating the next generation of children around the globe. According to Safe Kids Worldwide, traffic collisions are...

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Celebrating 20 years of Complete Streets

The term “Complete Streets” was coined two decades ago, and while a lot of progress has been made, the fight for safe streets is...